Under the leadership of Josef Stalin, the Soviet Union’s internal security services were led by a People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs. Two of the most famous Commissars were Nikolai Yezhov and ...
Next to Stalin the most powerful man in Soviet Russia for the past two years has been Nikolai Yezhov, Commissar for Internal Affairs since September 1936. Comrade Yezhov is the man who in 1937 put on ...
History, like the sea, is a harsh mistress. Russian Bolshevik Nikolai Yezhov learned this the hard way. Rising quickly through the ranks of the Communist Party, he attained the pinnacle of power as ...
As Soviet water transport is not going well, Water Transport Commissar Nikolai Pakhomov was ousted last week and his commissariat turned over to Secret Political Police Chief Nikolai Yezhov, who is ...
History, like the sea, is a harsh mistress. Russian Bolshevik Nikolai Yezhov learned this the hard way. Rising quickly through the ranks of the Communist Party, he attained the pinnacle of power as ...
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